After four years of waiting for the next World Cup event, it’s only understandable why many would be joining in on the World Cup fever. And as the sporting event kicks off on Thursday, many are already preparing to support their favorite teams as they play in Russia.

One thing that the MacBooks and flagship Android smartphones have in common is the USB type C port, which enables fast charging, fast data transfer and also offers reversibility, where a user can insert it without looking at the actual port.

Apple Inc changed its App Store rules last week to limit how developers use information about iPhone owners’ friends and other contacts, quietly closing a loophole that let app makers store and share data without many people’s consent.

There are apps that sometimes request your permission to grant them access to your contacts. For example if you download a VoIP app or a messenger app or a social networking app, it sometimes asks for access to your contacts to help you find friends, create a phonebook, and so on, and for the most part it makes sense.

Last week, Apple made some changes to App Store regulations that prevents developers from collecting information about iPhone users' friends and contacts. Before this change, developers could obtain this information without consent from most people involved. Developers often ask users to share their phone contacts to quietly build a database of names and numbers that can be sold to marketers.

Apple has updated its App Store guidelines to disallow all apps from supporting on-device cryptocurrency mining. Henceforth, any app that includes cryptocurrency mining feature will be removed from the store and no new submissions will be accepted.